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PROF. LORI REPETTI
Department of Linguistics
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
1-631-632-7446
lori.repetti@stonybrook.edu
updated: 13 August 2014
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD, 1989, Romance Linguistics
RECENT GRANTS
NSF Linguistics grant: Stress Patterns with Clitics and Weak Pronominals in Post-Verbal
Position in Romance Languages (Francisco Ordóñez, co-PI) (2006-2011)
NSF Supplemental Funding “Research Experiences for Undergraduates” (2009-2011)
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editorial Board of Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica (2012-16)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
database
Clitics of Romance Languages
http://crl.railsplayground.net/
Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez (2011)
books (edited collection)
Linguistic Identities of Italian in Italy and North America
co-editor: Hermann W. Haller
special issue of Forum Italicum vol. 48, 2014
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000
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articles
“Palatalization” Oxford Guide to Romance Languages, Adam Ledgeway and Martin
Maiden, eds. Oxford: OUP (to appear).
“On the morphological restriction of hosting clitics in Italian and Sardinian dialects”
Italia dialettale 75: 173-199, 2014 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Imperative Characteristics in Romance Varieties Spoken in Italy” Italian Journal of
Linguistics 26: 135-163, 2014 (co-authored with Emily Romanello).
“Where did all the dialects go? Aspects of the influence of Italian on dialects” Linguistic
Identities of Italian in Italy and North America (special issue of Forum Italicum vol. 48)
Lori Repetti and Hermann W. Haller, eds. 48: 219-226, 2014.
“Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian” Probus 25: 267-300,
2013 (co-authored with Miran Kim).
“Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian” Catalan Journal of
Linguistics 11: 167-188, 2012.
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects and the Null-Subject
Parameter” Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy, Roberta D’Alessandro, Adam
Ledgeway, and Ian Roberts, eds. Cambridge: CUP, 119-134, 2010 (co-authored with
Anna Cardinaletti).
“Preverbal Vowels in Wh-Questions and Declarative Sentences in Northern Italian
Piacentine Dialects” Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected Papers from the 39th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 39), Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana
Maria Carvalho, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 353-368, 2010 (co-authored with
Anna Cardinaletti).
“Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects” Romance Languages
and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ Groningen 2008
Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, and Bart Hollenbrandse, eds.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 37-58, 2010 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Loan Phonology, Andrea
Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 225-239, 2009.
“Phrase-level and word-level syllables: Resyllabification and prosodization of clitics”
Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations, Janet Grijzenhout and Baris Kabak,
eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 79-104, 2009 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Phonology and Syntax of Preverbal and Postverbal Subject Clitics in Northern
Italian Dialects” Linguistic Inquiry 39: 523-563, 2008 (co-authored with Anna
Cardinaletti).
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“Vocali epentetiche nella morfologia dell’italiano e dei dialetti italiani” Miscellanea di
studi linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli da amici e allievi padovani, Roberta Maschi,
Nicoletta Penello, and Piera Rizzolatti, eds. Udine: Forum Editrice, 116-126, 2007 (coauthored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian” Historical
Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives, Randall S. Gess and Deborah
Arteaga, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 209-239, 2006.
“Stressed Enclitics?” New Analyses on Romance Linguistics: Volume II: Phonetics,
Phonology and Dialectology (Selected Papers from the 35th LSRL 35) Jean-Pierre
Montreuil, ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 167-181, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco
Ordóñez).
“Come i sostantivi inglesi diventano italiani: la morfologia e la fonologia dei prestiti”
Italiano e inglese a confronto, Anna-Vera Sullam Calimani, ed. Firenze: Cesati, 31-42,
2003.
“Non-Homorganic Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects” Current Issues in
Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages, Ann Arbor, 8-11 April 1999, Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora, and Diana
Cresti, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 271-285, 2002.
“Italian” Facts about the World's Languages, Jane Garry and Carl Rubino, eds. New
York and Dublin: The H. W. Wilson Company, 341-344, 2001.
“Uneven or Moraic Trochees? Evidence from Emilian and Romagnol Dialects”
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Lori Repetti, ed. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 273-288, 2000.
“The Syllable” in The Dialects of Italy, Martin Maiden and Mair Parry, eds. London:
Routledge, 52-57, 1997.
“Gender Assignment of English Loan Words in American Varieties of Italian” American
Speech 72: 373-380, 1997 (co-authored with Angela Rabeno).
“Fenomeni di sandhi in un dialetto piacentino” in Atti del Terzo Convegno della Società
Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, Perugia, 27-29 giugno 1994 (2 vols.),
Luciano Agostiniani, et al., eds. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 647-655, 1997.
“Syllabification and Unsyllabified Consonants in Emilian and Romagnol Dialects” in
Aspects of Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages XXIV, March 10-13, 1994, Claudia Parodi, Carlos Quicoli, Mario
Saltarelli, María Luisa Zubizarreta, eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press,
373-382, 1996.
“Teaching About the Other Italian Languages: Dialectology in the Italian Curriculum”
Italica 73: 508-515, 1996.
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“Variazione nella sillabificazione: il caso dei dialetti emiliani e romagnoli” Rivista
italiana di dialettologia 19: 41-56, 1995.
“Constraints on Prosodic Structure: A Study of the Dialect of Coli (PC)” Studi italiani di
linguistica teorica e applicata 24: 279-288, 1995.
“Turinese Syllable Structure and Vowel Insertion Processes” Italian Culture 13: 323-333,
1995.
“Epentesi nei dialetti emiliani e romagnoli” in Italia settentrionale: crocevia di idiomi
romanzi: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Trento, 21-23 ottobre 1993, Emanuele
Banfi, et al., eds. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 81-86, 1995.
“Degenerate Syllables in Friulian” Linguistic Inquiry 25: 186-193, 1994.
“The Integration of Foreign Loans in the Phonology of Italian” Italica 70: 182-196, 1993.
“A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long Vowels and Falling
Diphthongs in Friulian” in Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the Ninth
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Henk Aertsen and Robert J. Jeffers,
eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 417-427, 1993.
“L'accento dei prestiti recenti in italiano” Quaderni patavini di linguistica 12: 79-87,
1993.
“Vowel Length in Northern Italian Dialects” Probus: International Journal of Romance
Linguistics 4: 155-182, 1992.
“A Moraic Analysis of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico” Rivista di Linguistica 3: 307330, 1991.
“The Evolution of Latin PL, BL, and CL, GL in Western Romance” Studi mediolatini e
volgari 33: 53-115, 1987 (with Edward F. Tuttle).
SELECTED LECTURES
invited lectures
“Clitics of Romance Languages (CRL) Database” NYU Syntax Brown Bag/PEP Lab
Lecture Series, February 7, 2014 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Third Person NOM-ACC Clitic Combinations” invited plenary speaker at Cambridge
Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting 7 (CIDSM), Cambridge, UK, June 24-25, 2013 (coauthored with and presented by Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Phonology of Post-Verbal Pronouns in Romance Languages” invited plenary
speaker at LSRL 43 (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), CUNY, April 19,
2013.
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“The Languages of Italy” Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University, March 15,
2012.
“Talk This Way: Linguistic and Psychological Views of Language Variation” InDialogue series at the Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, March 1, 2012
(presented with Susan Brennan).
“Italian Dialects in Italy Today” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York City, NY, October
20, 2011.
“Morphology, phonology and syntax of stressed enclitics in Romance” Conference on
Romance Clitics NYU, May 2-3, 2008 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Cio' che il piemontese ci puo' insegnare della morfo-fonologia dell'italiano” Rescontr di
Studi Piemontesi, Ivrea (Italy), May 8-9, 2004.
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects” Third
Workshop on the Null-Subject Parameter and Related Issues, Cambridge University
(Great Britain), December 15, 2003 (co-authored with and presented by Anna
Cardinaletti).
“Morphological Epenthesis” Penn State University, April 17, 2003 (co-authored with
Anna Cardinaletti).
“Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects: Phonology, Syntax and Microvariation” University
of Bristol (Wales), June 4, 2002 (co-authored with and presented by Anna Cardinaletti).
“Adattamento morfologico e fonologico dei sostantivi inglesi nelle varietà dell'italiano
parlato negli Stati Uniti” Italiano e Inglese a Confronto, Università di Venezia (Italy),
April 12-13, 2002.
“La fonologia e la sintassi dei clitici soggetto in piacentino” Workshop sulla cartografia
strutturale delle configurazioni sintattiche e le sue interacce con la fonologia e la
semantica, Università di Firenze (Italy), March 30-31, 2001 (co-authored with and
presented by Anna Cardinaletti).
“La fonologia e la sintassi dei clitici soggetto in piacentino” Sesta giornata italoamericana di dialettologia, Università di Padova (Italy), June 8, 2000 (co-authored with
and presented by Anna Cardinaletti).
“Moraic or Uneven Trochees in Latin?: Evidence from Italian Dialects” Quarta giornata
italo-americana di dialettologia, Università di Padova (Italy), June 9, 1998.
“Moraic or Uneven Trochees in Latin?: Evidence from Italian Dialects” Florence
Phonology Seminar, Università di Firenze (Italy), May 29, 1998.
“Nasale+occlusiva nei dialetti settentrionali” Seminario di Linguistica, Dipartimento di
Filologia Moderna, Università di Napoli (Italy), April 30, 1998.
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“Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects” Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola
Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy), April 3, 1998.
“Coda Consonant Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects” Romance Linguistics Seminar
XXVI, Cambridge University (Great Britain), January 5, 1998.
“Epenthesis in Romance: The Case of Northern Italian Dialects” M. Phil. Seminar Series
in Linguistics, Cambridge University (Great Britain), February 24, 1997.
“The Definite Article in Italian” Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Cambridge
University (Great Britain), May 15, 1996.
“Dante and the Vernacular” Lectura Dantis, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, May
6, 1996.
“A Constraint-Based Analysis of Syllable Structure and Epenthesis in the Dialects of
Northern Italy” International Linguistic Association, Hunter College, CUNY, October 14,
1995.
“Constraints on Syllable Structure and Epenthesis” Dipartimento di Linguistica,
Università di Venezia (Italy), June 12, 1995.
“Constraints on Prosodic Structure: A Study of the Emilian and Romagnol Dialects”
Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware, October 24, 1994.
“Variazione parametrica nella sillabificazione delle consonanti non sillabate nei dialetti
emiliani e romagnoli” Prima giornata italo-americana di dialettologia, Università di
Padova (Italy), June 24, 1994.
“Stress Assignment of English Loans in Italian” Department of Modern Languages and
Linguistics, Cornell University, February 11, 1994.
“Epenthesis in Northern Italian Dialects” Department of Modern Languages and
Linguistics, Cornell University, February 10, 1994.
“L'italiano nelle università americane” Istituto di letteratura italiana, Università di
Genova (Italy), November 30, 1993.
“La toponomastica e i dialetti italiani settentrionali” Department of Romance Languages,
Queens College, CUNY, May 6, 1992.
“Sonority Constraints on Degenerate Syllables” Department of Linguistics, Manchester
University (Great Britain), March 17, 1992.
“Vowel Length in Friulian,” Special Session on Italian Phonology, LSA Summer
Linguistic Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 11, 1991.
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“The Integration of English Loans into Italian,” Department of Italian, New York
University, March 4, 1991.
“An Autosegmental Analysis of the Evolution and Synchronic Structures of Italian
Raddoppiamento Sintattico,” Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
(SUNY), December 8, 1989.
conference talks
“Borrowed Nouns in American Italian and Standard Italian” AISLLI Conference: The
Languages of Italy in the United States Philadelphia, April 3-5, 2013.
“On the morphological restriction of hosting clitics in Italian Dialects and Sardinian”
Italian Dialect Meeting Leiden, May 24-26, 2012 (co-authored with and presented by
Francisco Ordóñez).
“Bitonal pitch accent and secondary association with metrical structure in Sardinian”
Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP) Provo, Utah, September 23-25,
2010 (co-authored with Miran Kim).
“Bitonal accent alignment in Sardinian: how far can tonal components be separated?”
European Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE4) Stockholm, September 9-11, 2010
(co-authored with and presented by Miran Kim).
“Identifying stress placement with clitics in Arborese Sardinian: How phonetics helps us
to understand phonology-syntax” GLS (Georgetown Linguistics Society) Conference on
“Sound, Structure, Meaning: Explorations at the Interface” Georgetown, February 1214, 2010 (co-authored with Miran Kim).
“Factors Determining Clitic vs Weak Pronoun Choice in Post-Verbal Position in
Romance Languages” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting 4 (CIDSM),
Cambridge, UK, June 29-30, 2009 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Preverbal Vowels in wh-Questions in Northern Italian Dialects” LSRL 39 (Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Arizona, Tucson, March 26-29, 2009
(co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Functional Vowels in Main Questions in Northern Italian Dialects” Going Romance,
Groningen, The Netherlands, December 11-12, 2008 (co-authored with and presented by
Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Prosodization of Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects” Phonological
Domains: Universals and Deviations, Siegen, Germany, February 28-March 2, 2007 (coauthored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Going Romance
(Workshop on Loan Phonology), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 7-8, 2006.
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“Stressed Enclitics” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting (CIDSM), Cambridge,
UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects” Cambridge Italian Dialect
Syntax Meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Anna
Cardinaletti).
“Stressed Enclitics?” Workshop on Romance Clitics, Stony Brook University (SUNY),
May 11, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Patterns of Stress Shift in Enclisis in Romance” XV Colloquium on Generative
Grammar Barcelona, Spain, April 4-6, 2005 (co-authored and presented by Francisco
Ordóñez).
“Stressed Enclitics” LSRL 35 (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University
of Texas, Austin, February 24-27, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects”
Conference on Null Subjects and Parametric Variation, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18-19,
2003 (co-authored with and presented by Anna Cardinaletti).
“Word-Final Epenthetic Vowels and Morphology in Italian and Italian Dialects” LSRL
(Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Indiana, April 24-27,
2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects: Phonology, Syntax and Microvariation” GLOW
(Generative Linguistics in the Old World), Amsterdam, April 9-11, 2002 (co-authored
with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Phonology and Syntax of Piacentine Clitics” Conference on Italian Linguistics, Stony
Brook University (SUNY), September 7, 2001 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Phonology and Syntax of Piacentine Clitics” Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages XXX, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 24-27, 2000 (co-authored
with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Non-Homorganic Nasal Clusters in Northern Italian Dialects” Linguistic Symposium on
Romance Languages XXIX, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 8-11, 1999.
“Uneven Trochees in Latin: Evidence from Romance Dialects” Incontro di Grammatica
Generativa XXIV, Università di Verona, Italy, February 26-28, 1998.
“Journals of Italian Linguistics” The Literary Journal as a Cultural Witness, Stony Brook
University (SUNY), April 28-29, 1995.
“Gender Assignment of Italian-American Loanwords” American Association of Italian
Studies XV, University of Arizona, Tempe, April 20-23, 1995 (co-authored with Angela
Rabeno).
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“Teaching about the 'Other' Italian Languages: Dialectology in the Italian Curriculum”
American Association of Teachers of Italian, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18-20, 1994.
“Fenomeni sandhi nel piacentino” Società internazionale di linguistica e filologia
italiana III, Perugia, Italy, June 27-29, 1994.
“Vowel Loss and Vowel Insertion in Northern Italian Dialects” American Association of
Italian Studies XIV, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 7-10, 1994.
“Epenthesis and Syllabification in Emilian and Romagnol Dialects” Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages XXIV, UCLA/USC, March 10-13, 1994.
“Epentesi nei dialetti emiliani e romagnoli” Italia settentrionale: crocevia di idiomi
romanzi, Università di Trento, Italy, October 21-23, 1993.
“Vowel Length and Consonant Sonority in Gallo-Italic” American Association of Italian
Studies XIII, University of Texas, Austin, April 15-18, 1993.
“A Synchronic Analysis of Place Names in the Seventh - Eleventh Century Documents
from the Monastery of Bobbio (Italy)” Onomastic Symposium XVII, Connecticut, October
5, 1991.
“An Autosegmental Analysis of Long Vowels in Northern Italian Dialects” Historical
Linguistics X, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 12-16, 1991.
“A Moraic Account of the Integration of Loan Words into Standard Italian,”
International Linguistic Association XXXVI, New York, April 6-7, 1991.
“Un'analisi autosegmentale delle vocali lunghe dei dialetti italiani,” Società
internazionale di linguistica e filologia italiana II, Downing College, Cambridge, Great
Britain, March 24-27, 1991.
“Polygenesis of Long Vowels in Northern Italian Dialects: An Autosegmental
Approach,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 27-30, 1990.
“A Moraic Account of the Integration of Loan Words in Standard Italian and Friulian,”
Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 27-30, 1990.
“Long Vowels in Friulian: A Moraic Model,” Historical Linguistics IX, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ, August 14-18, 1989.
“A Moraic Model of the Evolution of Long Vowels,” American Association of Italian
Studies IX, University of Lowell, MA, April 13-16, 1989.
“Metaphony in Romance,” Romance Linguistics Symposium, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA, May 20, 1988.
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conferences and workshops organized
Workshop on Databases and Corpora in Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY),
October 17, 2014.
(Co-organized by Francisco Ordóñez and Lori Repetti; co-sponsored by FAHSS and
SUNY CID)
Colloquium series on African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) 2014-2015 (series
of conference sponsored by the Presidential Mini-Grant for Diversity)
Colloquium Series on Language Diversity, Stony Brook University (SUNY), 2010-2013
Workshop on Field Research, Stony Brook University (SUNY), April 17, 2009
(Co-organized with Francisco Ordóñez)
Workshop on Romance Clitics, Stony Brook University (SUNY), May 11, 2005
(Co-organized with Francisco Ordóñez)
Conference on Italian Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY), September 7, 2001
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